An ode to Alan Shearer and a moptop classic reworked for Jonathan Woodgate have emerged on the shortlist for the nation's best football chant.

A judging panel headed by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has picked two Newcastle United-inspired chants from more than 1,500 entries for the Barclaycard Chant Laureate contest, to find the ditty which best typifies the spirit, passion and wit of the game.

But the Toon chants were penned by an Aston Villa fan and a Huddersfield poet. Brummie Alan Carr has written a homage to Shearer to the tune of the Lou Reed classic Walk on the Wild Side.